Despite a history that can be tracked to 1867, the US Department of Education is a relative newcomer to applying evidence standards to education research. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) reviews intervention research to support evidence-based decision making. This is done by applying standards of research quality to studies and giving those studies ratings that indicate the extent to which the findings are trustworthy. In addition, nonprofit entities have also invested in vetting research toward more informed decision-making in education and other policy areas. There is much overlap in the interventions of interest to the WWC and other research vetting entities. The authors model the comparative approach using a case study of the "Career Academies" program, reviewed under WWC Group Design Standards, Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development (Univeristy of Colorado Boulder, 2019), and Social Programs that Work (Arnold Ventures', 2019) standards. The goal of this comparison is to examine these and other standards frameworks, extending the case study of "Career Academies" toward the goal of illuminating differences in framework-specific assessments of interventions that could confound decision making for practitioners. [SREE documents are structured abstracts of SREE conference symposium, panel, and paper or poster submissions.]